1829. He died two years later on April 13, 1831 in Boston, Massachusetts from tuberculosis. Following his death, Garrison wrote an obituary on The Liberator "...few men ever deserved a higher eulogy than Mr. Paul. In his manners, he was dignified, urbane and attractive;—his colloquial powers were exuberant and vigorous;—his intellect was assiduously cultivated .... As a self-made man (and, in the present age, every colored man, if made at all, must be self-made,) he was indeed a prodigy. His fame, as a preacher, is exceedingly prevalent; for his eloquence charmed the ear, and his piety commended itself to his hearers." He also received various other mentions, such as by the dean of America's black historians Carter Woodson, who wrote "He frequently made preaching excursions into different parts of the country where his 'color' excited considerable curiosity, and being a person of very pleasing and fervid address, he attracted crowds to hear him." Family and relatives Paul was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, and was the eldest of six brothers. He married Catherine Waterhouse on December 5, 1805, and they had three children shortly after: Ann Catherine, Susan, and Thomas, Jr. Susan Paul became a prominent writer and published the first biography of an African American in the United States. Thomas, Jr. worked as a teacher at the Abiel Smith School after studying at the short-lived Noyes Institute. Two of his brothers, Nathaniel Paul and Benjamin Paul, also became Baptist preachers. Nathaniel was a minister at Albany, NY, and founder of the Providence's United African Society in the 1820s. Benjamin was minister of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York along with Paul. Paul was the uncle of poet James Monroe Whitfield through his sister Nancy. By his sister Rhoda, he was the brother-in-law of noted black Revolutionary War soldier, Jude Hall. See also Horton, James Oliver. "Generations of Protest: black Families and Social Reform in Ante-Bellum Boston." New England Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Jun., 1976): 242–256. Kachun, Mitch. "Antebellum African Americans, Public Commemoration, and the Haitian Revolution: a problem of historical mythmaking." Journal of the Early Republic Vol. 26, No. 2 (Summer, 2006):249–273. Suttington, Joanne M. “Financial Literacy and Accountability Within black Baptist Churches”. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2711&context=doctoral&httpsredir=1&referer= King, Ronnie C. “Past, Present, Future: A Biblical Succession Module for Pastors in the black Baptist Church”. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. Mitchell, Henry H. black Church Beginnings: The LONG-HIDDEN